The aim of the paper is to describe a study into the necessary requirements for libraries' online training materials and to relate the pilot test undertaken to create a series of teaching materials in video format at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC).
The starting point for the study is the need to create new teaching materials which are adapted to the needs of users in a virtual environment and to the EHEA, where there is an increasing need for the student to be autonomous and where informational skills are fundamental. All this has led us to rethink our teaching materials.